Investment into the UK student accommodation, investment-grade private rented sector and senior living rental sectors is expected to reach £146bn by 2025, rising from £87.3bn in 2019, according to Knight Frank.

Rent-free periods have risen in parts of the City fringe as landlords struggle to maintain headline rents in the face of competition from landlords in the City of London, data from Carter Jonas reveals.

Two years ago this month, the renowned real estate academic Andrew Baum, in a report for Oxford University’s Said Business School on proptech, pointed to a clash of generations and cultures between the real estate industry and the tech pioneers.